10 July 2019

What you need to know for Thursday’s $80M Powerball draw

Records

  • If a single WA entry wins the entire $80 million it would be a record for the state and the second highest single entry win in Australian lottery history.
  • The biggest prize in WA Lotto history was on Powerball when a Perth family took out the entire $50 million Division One prize in July 2015.
  • The Australian record for an individual winner is $107 million in January this year. It was won on Powerball by a Sydney woman.
  • 2nd highest -$70 million, Jan 2016 to a Queensland winner.
  • 3rd highest - $50 million to a WA winner in July 2015 and Canberra winner in May 2015.
  • On the day of draw 4pm-5pm is the busiest hour for purchasing tickets, it will peak at more than 900 tickets sold a minute, and we expect to sell more than 750,000 tickets this week.
  • Since 2008, WA Powerball players have won more than $770 million in prize money, including more than $244 million on Division One

Ticket types and “hot” numbers

  • A great way to play Powerball is with a Powerpik ticket. It gives you the winning Powerball number, thus increasing your chances of winning since you need the Powerball number to win Division One and five of the other nine divisions. A Powerpik 7 is $24.
  • Between July 2018 to June2019, the most frequent winning numbers from Barrel A were
    • 17 (drawn 20 times)
    • 2, 11, 20, 29 (drawn 14 times each) and
    • 4, 7 and 22 (drawn 13 times each).
  • Most frequent winning numbers picked from Barrel B (the Powerball) are 19 (drawn 6 times), 3 (drawn 5 times) followed by 7, 13 and 20 (drawn 4 times each)
  • In 2018-19, the most popular tickets were Slikpik 12, Slikpik 18 , Powerpik 7 followed by System 8 and Slikpik 25.
  • Instore sales: 77% are Slikpiks, 22% choose their own numbers, about 3.5% are syndicates; 25% are system tickets (these can be Slikpiks or payslips).
  • About 13.5% of Powerball tickets are bought online. 
  • Over the past 12 months, WA’s most successful Powerball suburbs were
    • Perth
    • Morley
    • Cloverdale
    • Mandurah
    • Bunbury
    • Midland
    • Geraldton
    • Albany
    • Rockingham
    • Kalgoorlie.

Community

  • In 2018-19 financial year, Powerball raised around $84 million for the WA community
  • Between July 2007-June 2019, Powerball raised about $536 million for the WA community.

The Game

  • Powerball is a jackpotting game.
  • Need seven winning numbers plus the Powerball.
  • Division One prize pool starts at $3 million and is shared among the winners.
  • The odds are 1 in 134,490,400 and if you buy a Powerpik 7, your odds go to 1 in 6,724,520.
  • Since 19 April 2018, played by drawing seven numbers from 35 in barrel A, then one number from 20 in Barrel B (the Powerball).

 
If you would like specific facts and stats relating to your region or audience, please contact Senior Public Relations Officers Jennie Fitzhardinge or Hermione Coleman on 
T: 9488 6227 
M:0438 996 884
E: publicrelations@lotterywest.wa.gov.au